09-21-2003, 09:06 PM
|
|
|
Too lazy to set a custom title
Industry Role:
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 51,692
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Sly_RJ
Inspired by this post...
Now this is just a THEORY based on observation. Please educate me with facts and information if you know something I don't.
--
I live in San Diego, a fairly expensive city to live in. I live a block away from a large University, meaning my cost of living may be higher than other areas of the city due to space.
I figured out my daily cost of living. Granted, this includes no "extras" or "luxuries", but honestly I really don't buy that type of stuff.
Monthly rent: $415
Phone bill: $7
Electric bill: $15
Cable bill: $10
Internet bill: $50
Food bill (I eat good, too): $150
Grand total: $647
Which comes out to about $22 daily. It costs me around $22 a day to live fairly comfortably and happy. Now, a homeless person wouldn't have a good chunk of these expenses.
Monthly rent: shelters and hostels, no?
Phone bill: no bill, let's say $5 for pay phone use.
Electric bill: no electric bill.
Cable bill: no cable bill.
Internet bill: no Internet bill.
Food bill: when I first moved out I was living on $100 monthly eating crap. We'll say that.
Grand total: $105
A homeless man would need around $3-4 daily to break even. Anything over that $3-4 daily could be saved, spent on "extras" (medicine, entertainment, better food, drugs, alcohol, etc), or it could be used to better his life (buy new clothes and look for jobs.)
Ok, so homeless man needs $4 daily. Now how the hell does homeless man get $4 daily? Well, I often see homeless people recycling cans and bottles for cash (every week I give a neighborhood homeless man over 100 bottles to recycle), I ALWAYS see homeless people asking for spare change or food, OR they could go out on a limb and spruce up just a bit so they can get a job.
What jobs? Our economy sucks!
Whether you want to believe it or not, there are still plenty of jobs around. I see them all the time. One of the main reasons people always claim there are no jobs available is because they would NEVER consider working at any of the available jobs. Fast food, janitorial, washing cars, street sales, etc.
So again, this is just my weak theory. I've pointed out how much money is needed to live (and grow) and I've also pointed out ways to make that little amount of needed cash.
Why are there homeless people?
|
It's kinda obvious you live at your mom's place. (lol)
1 : If a 400 $ rent was expensive then what the fuck now ! Unless you live with 5 people in a medium appartement it's kinda impossible
Electric bill: $15 = ROFLMAO
and btw, homeless people can't cook so they gotta go at the restaurent . They pay way more than it cost you make your home food ... And eating on 150 $ a month is possible I dunno ... you gotta eat lot of TOFU and that kidn of shit .
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by rayadp05
I rebooted, deleted temp files, history, cookies and everything...still cannot view the news clip. All I see is that fucking gay ass music video from "Rick Roll". Anyone else have a different link to the news clip?
|
|
|
|